Rainforest Action Network
Action is our middle name.
Information
Founded:
1985
Fans

6 of 6,875 fansSee All

Events

7 past eventsSee All

Causes
 
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network RAN's Joshua Kahn Russell helped lead the largest action inside of the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations alongside several hundred youth!

Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Forests and the climate are inextricably linked.

We’ve always known that rainforests have a profound effect on our weather, regulating rainfall patterns and reflecting sunlight to help insulate the planet. With growing awareness of climate change, the role that rainforests play in absorbing carbon dioxide is becoming ev...er more apparent – old growth tropical forests absorb and store almost 15 percent of the worlds C02 from the atmosphere each year.

That means that losing rainforests is a double whammy – producing huge emissions as trees and soils are burned (releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere) while eliminating one of our best means of absorbing emissions back into the ground.

Worldwide, the degradation and destruction of tropical rainforests is responsible for fifteen percent of all annual greenhouse emissions. That’s more than the emissions from all the cars, planes, trucks, buses and trains in the U.S. combined.

At Rainforest Action Network, we believe that protecting forests is an integral part of saving the climate.

Southeast Asia is one of the worst spots for deforestation and climate change. Indonesia alone has become the third largest global greenhouse gas emitter due mainly to deforestation of islands like Borneo and Sumatra.

Saving the rainforest requires the same system changes that stopping fossil fuels does – a new greener world based on sustainability, not consumption.

Our Tropical Forests Program is tackling the two greatest drivers of rainforest destruction in Southeast Asia: industrial palm oil and paper pulp plantations. RAN is focusing on reducing market demand for environmentally and socially irresponsible palm oil and paper products and transforming global supply chains. Working with partners in the U.S, Indonesia and around the world, RAN’s campaigns create the market leverage necessary to improve both corporate and government policies and practices.

You can help stop the destruction of these rainforests and provide a concrete solution to climate change.

Sign up today to learn more and find ways to take action.

We can’t save the climate if we don’t save the rainforests.

See More
Glen Barry
Glen Barry
If this is indeed the case, could RAN please share with us how FSC certified logging of carbon rich ancient forests is an environmental good? I challenge you to a debate on whether ending old forest logging should be the goal of rainforest movement. Oh yeah, RAN doesn't answer to anyone.
14 hours ago
Elena
Elena
Who are you Glen Barry? I think I've seen your comments before and don't understand your references.
about an hour ago
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Following yesterday's rally to save Coal River Mountain, today we are asking folks across to country to call West Virginia's Department of Environmental Protection at (304) 926-0499 (x1545) and demand that they intervene!

ga3.org
Massey's mountaintop coal removal operations are happening only a few hundred feet away from the Brushy Fork impoundment dam, which holds over 8.2 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above Pettus, WV. ...
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network On December 7th in Charleston, W. Va, over 300 coalfield residents and their allies rallied to stop the blasting of Coal River Mountain and to demand a transition to a clean energy future.

Teri Blanton
Teri Blanton
Thanks RAN for helping to bring such atrocities to light
Tue at 7:30am
Val Laurent
Val Laurent
saving the rainforest is like saving your DNA we still have yet to unlock all its hidden knowledge and once destroyed is irretrievable....
Yesterday at 12:33pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network December 7th is going to be an exciting day at Chevron's headquarters. If you live in the SF Bay Area, please join us at San Ramon, CA to send Chevron this message, loud and clear: "Our Climate is NOT Your Business!"

west.actforclimatejustice.org
In the greater Bay Area, the Mobilization for Climate Justice-West is organizing a series of demonstrations and educational events to generate “street heat” around climate justice and build a strong grassroots ...
Kevin Starbard
Kevin Starbard
Was arrested on a Greenpeace protest at Chevron refinery there back in 1985...all these years later, we are still battling the same corporate polluters :(
December 3 at 6:23pm
Jacqueline Dodaro
Jacqueline Dodaro
BOYCOTT CHEVRON!!!!!!!
December 4 at 9:36am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Whoohoo! After a two-month campaign by RAN and pressure from fashion industry leaders, the luxury packaging company PAK 2000 has announced that they will cut all financial ties with Asian Pulp and Paper/Sinar Mas Group – Indonesia’s biggest logger and one of its biggest and worst palm oil growers. Thank you to all of y...ou who participated in the online actions and helped make this happen!

See More
December 2 at 3:20pm
Dennis A. Landi
December 5 at 12:56pm
Jose Bastardo
Jose Bastardo
The European Union and Courts are the most Corrupted and Fraudulent Organization in the World ...... Courts making False Will Testaments and they Steal Houses and everything else…..

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139365220491&ref=ts
Mon at 12:51pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Are you a fan of Annie Leonard's mini-movie "The Story of Stuff"? Today, she launched "The Story of Cap and Trade" - a 10 minute production on why cap & trade will NOT solve our climate change dilemma. Check it out!

storyofstuff.com
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street ...
Marci Scileppi
Marci Scileppi
I'm a fan as are my boys.
December 1 at 3:46pm
James Richardson
December 1 at 6:34pm
Jeff Hall
Jeff Hall
If there is an agreement soon, it will be cap and trade. We need a strong science/economist team to assess the mechanisms to make sure they are effective. Passing something to pass something (a la U.S. healthcare debacle) is certainly a travesty. But is 'nothing' better than 'less than ideal'? My ideal treaty would be cap and trade, carbon tax AND tobin tax.
December 2 at 8:47am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network A LOT is going on right now on N30! There is a major lockdown in S. Carolina, on a massive generator bound for the Cliffside Coal Plant. Now there are a dozen people locked down in the middle of the strong in front of the Chicago Climate Exchange. There's also a sit-in going on at the Canadian Finance Minister's offic...e in Ontario. Stay tuned for more updates!

See More
www.actforclimatejustice.org
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Today
is Nov. 30th - the 10th anniversary of the WTO protest in Seattle and
one week before the Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen. Folks around
the country are organizing major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil
disobedience actions to demand CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! Check out this link
for a list of actions going on right now!

understory.ran.org
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Police are now on the scene at an anti tarsands sit-in taking place in Calgary. Pictures: http://bit.ly/6yMEHJ

David
David
Wonderful..thank you for posting this. Stolen and shared. Peace.
November 23 at 4:51pm
Margaret
Margaret
Thank you for your endurance. I watch your site closely and the many sites for people, environment and animal protection and participate. If more people tuned in, it would help in the consciousness of the planet, www.themystic.org has 32 life lessons for free, that help us do that at even a deeper level. The author is a realized master. There are as many realized masters on the planet that could fit in a small room.
November 26 at 10:12am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network The tar sands blow. Plain and simple. Share liberally!

www.youtube.com
The Canadian Tar Sands is the world's largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Yet, unless steps are taken by the U.S. ...
Ted
Ted
Share radically!
November 21 at 11:17am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Yesterday RAN's executive director Mike Brune sent a letter to Chevron’s incoming CEO John Watson and made him an offer: Come with us to Ecuador. As he begins to lead a company that has heavily contaminated the country, doesn't it make sense to witness the damage before he denies it?

understory.ran.org
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Our RAN Toronto group publicly shames the Royal Bank of Canada's CEO, Gordon Nixon, at a business conference for financing the most destructive project in Canada - TARSANDS!

understory.ran.org
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Emerald Star
Emerald Star
how will they clean up the environment in the tarsands areas then?
They will definitely keep on refining oil there.
How can they do this in a cleaner way?
I do not like the idea of using natural gas because i heard it uses up about 50% of the fossil fuels that they can get back from refining each unit of tarsands.
November 16 at 4:52pm
Belinda
Belinda
I agree 'no nukes' :) If we are so smart as a human race, then we should be able to build eco power plants like wind, solar, thermal and hydro electrical. Otherwise we are going to look very silly when people look back an see that we wasted all our money going to the moon because we couldn't save our own planet:(
November 17 at 12:47am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network "




We used to hear so much about the destruction of the Amazon rain
forest, but lately not a word. So what happened: Did we save it, or
not?"

www.washingtonpost.com
We used to hear so much about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, but lately not a word. So what happened: Did we save it, or not?
James Hoefelmeyer
James Hoefelmeyer
Go Ram! Stop the industrialists' greed and plunder!
November 11 at 6:04pm
Glen Barry
Glen Barry
Speaking of rainforest destruction, RAN promised over a year ago to investigate how many tens of millions of hectares of primary and old growth forests have been logged with FSC certification and RAN's support. Still no word. Why won't you defend your FSC support? What are you hiding?
November 12 at 5:31pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Activists continue to put pressure on EPA's Lisa Jackson to stop mountaintop removal on Coal River Mountain. When will the administrative step in and stop Massey Energy from dynamiting the area's last standing mountain?

understory.ran.org
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.